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Friday, September 12, 2014

Guest Post from Brenda Drake

We are pleased to offer this guest post. Good luck to all brave participants.

#PitMad

#PitMad is a pitch party on Twitter where writers tweet a 140 character pitch for their completed manuscripts. Have
several variations of your Twitter pitch available. Twitter may not let
you tweet the same pitch over within the same hour. The pitch must include the hashtag #PitMad and the category (#YA, #MG, #A, #NA, #PB and #NF) in the tweet. The “#” is important to include. It will sort the categories to make it easier for the agents/publishers. For more information about Twitter Pitching visit this post by agent Carly Wattershere.#YA = Young Adult#MG = Middle Grade#A = Adult#NA = New Adult#PB = Picture Book#CB = Chapter Book#NF = Non-fiction#WF = Woman’s Fiction #SFF = Science Fiction and Fantasy #R = RomanceRULES:The rules are simple. Everyone is welcome to pitch. All genres/categories are welcomed. Must be completed and polished manuscripts. You can pitch more than one manuscript. Throughout
the day tweet your pitch. Try not to do it too much (rule of thumb is
twice per hour per manuscript). When you see an industry professional on
the feed, tweet it once. Make sure to include the hashtag #PitMad and your genre/category (if you can fit it). The
agents/publishers will tweet their submission preferences and favorite
your tweet if they want to see more. If you get a favorite from an agent
or publisher, follow their submission preference and send them their
request as soon as you can. They should have tweeted what they want you
to send, so check their twitter feed for that information. If they
haven’t listed it, follow their submission guidelines on their websites.
Make sure to put “PitMad Request: TITLE” in the subject line of your email when sending your request. Don’t tweet agents and publishers directly unless they tweet you first. Don’t
favorite friends tweets. The agents will be requesting by favoriting
tweets. so let’s keep that for requests. You can RT your friends to show
your support.Please keep in mind,
we never know what agents or publishers will be on the hashtag, so make
sure you research each requesting agent or publisher. You do not have
to send requests to those requesting if you don’t want to work with
them. If you can’t be there, you can always schedule your tweets by using Tweetdeck or some other application that schedules tweets. And finally, be nice and courteous to each other, and especially to the industry professionals. We’ve had some success stories come out of our previous #PitMads
and we’d hate to have it canceled due to abuse. If you do see abuse,
please report it to Twitter or notify one of the hosts of the event.
Thank you!

Here’s the dates for our upcoming quarterly #PitMad events:

September 9, 2014

December 4, 2014

March 11, 2015

June 4, 2015

September 10, 2015

December 4, 2015

#PitMad starts at 8AM and ends at 8PM (EST or EDT, which is New York time).

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